Mount Gilead News

Pfeiffer University wrapped up its 2009 women's volleyball regular season with a 3-0 sweep over visiting Coker on Friday night inside the Merner Gym.

J.P. Ellerbe Mt. GILEAD -- J.P. Ellerbe, 78, of Mount Gilead, died Thursday, September 24, 2009 at First Health/ Moore Regional Hospital in Pinehurst.

Bradley Reid Thompson with his fiance, Cheryl Lynn Sedberry. Thompson is currently on the heart transplant list at Duke Hospital.

A group hoping to build a dog park in the Clemmons area has decided to approach the county for permission to use 2.3 acres at Tanglewood Park for that purpose.

MOUNT GILEAD, N.C. Stargazers have a chance to view the illusive planet Uranus at the Town Creek Indian Mound in Mount Gilead, described as "one of the best dark sky sites" in North Carolina.

Published: Saturday, July 25, 2009 at 5:00 a.m. Last Modified: Monday, July 27, 2009 at 8:28 a.m. Reeds Elementary School will have their Meet the Teacher Night from 3 to 6 p.m. Aug.

A line of strong thunderstorms formed just east of the Catawba River before daybreak this morning, bringing a noisy wakeup call for many residents of southern Iredell Rowan, Cabarrus and Stanly counties to the northeast of Charlotte.

Students from a fourth grade class at Pearsontown Elementary exit an old slave quarters building at Horton Grove near the Stagville Plantation in northern Durham County during a Friday morning field trip.

Keep driving the four lanes and you'll eventually come to the conclusion that the N.C. Piedmont is -- like annual road repair -- merely something that keeps you from reaching the mountains or the coast.

A bus tour to the Town Creek Indian Mound site will be held May 30. The site is in Mount Gilead and the tour is sponsored by the Joara Foundation.

The N.C. State University Board of Trustees has picked one of its elder statesmen - former Lt.